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From: DevilKin <devilkin-lkml@blindguardian.org>
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Subject: Re: VMM - freeing up swap space
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 18:32:55 +0200
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On Tuesday 18 June 2002 17:10, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Gregory Giguashvili wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Running an application allocating huge amounts of memory would push some
> > data from RAM to swap area. After the application terminates, swap area
> > is usually still occupied.
> >
> > Is there any way to clean up the swap area by pushing the data back to
> > RAM?
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> > Giga
>
> Sure. Execute `swapoff -a`, followed by `swapon -a`. This is no joke.

Hmm. Now if you happen to get out of memory during the swapoff part, you'll 
get the OO killer on your tail? Or will the system just go freeze solid?

Just a small question.

DK
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